From Lope to Celano: «La sofferenza coronata», an Italian adaptation of «Los tres diamantes» (and a digression on Ciro de Monarca’s «scenario» «Il cavaliere dai tre gilgi d’oro»)

Abstract

This paper explores an Italian adaptation of Lope de Vega’s play Los tres diamantes , written in the second part of the seventeeth century. Its author, Carlo Celano, was a famous writer of opere regie, i. e. , adaptations of Spanish comedies of situation. The analysis focuses on the way in which the adaptation of the Aristotelian units of space and time leads to a reduction of the characters and a simplification of the situation, although this is compensated by enriching its ludic component. This last trait can be also observed in a previous re-elaboration of Lope’s comedy, the scenario of the Commedia dell’arte titled Il cavaliere dai tre gigli d’oro .